Friday, 2. November 2007, 07:38:53
oslo, orange, story
Orange is the sky,
Orange is the sea,
The orange people,
they are orangely silent.
There used to be a nice children's song in Bulgarian like that. Or was
it an advertisement, or a song in an advertisement? Orange, everything
was orange and was doing orange thingies. Orange mothers with orange
children in orange gardens with orange flowers.
I finally got how it can all be orange - sunrise and sunset, they turn
the city around me into a sea of shifting orange varieties. Especially
now when it's so so low, almost moving in a straight line over the
horizon, instead of an arc. And now that all yellow-orange-brown leaves of the trees cover the ground in a pretty orange carpet. Twisted geometry, twisted days - strangely
fascinating. Making a funny little song real.
And my rooms are orange, in the rising sun. It'll be rising for a while
Thursday, 1. November 2007, 23:44:01
digital, horror, story
( Zee work is in progress - Zee rambles collection, zee practicularly stupid ones. )
This will probably not going to come out the way I wanted it to. Then again, why would it matter what my intention is - the feeling and the result are all that matters. They say that the way to somethingy is paved with good intentions. I can only assume that the somethingy is not exactly positive.
I have no good intentions. My intentions are cruel, seething with fury, hate, fear, depression. It's what could happen to people faced with something they wouldn't know how to deal with, or so I think. And it is because I, like you all, am a victim of the digital age.
Faceless, clueless, ignorant, exiting and enticing. Illusions are the first weapon. Illusions that substitute your reality and entice you into ways unfit, but undiscovered. An addict - that's what I am, clearly - by doing this post I just proved I am lost to the temptation. Because - midnight confessions - they never heal the soul. What you believe - is fantasy.
Fantastical creations of the human genius, the symbols of intellectual superiority, progress, civilisation. The symbols of soullessness, ignorance, degradation and humiliation. The ultimate creations - destroyers of mankind.
Take a look at the toys around you - right before your eyes - the toys are real.
Faceless, soulless communication, virtualized into a bitstream - a substitute for a normal human contact. The one that hides your limits and fears away from you. The one that makes you all truly equal - a falsified, faceless imitation of a human being. A human being lost and most of all - alone. Alone in his mind, even if not physically. A spiteful picture, an illusion, a grotesque of its own potential. A lie.
It's a horror. The fear taking in all of us, that we might not be fit for even this petty existence, that we might be outcasts in a non-existing world. Slaves of the electric potential difference, of formulas and dedicated minds. Whipped down by our fears and incompetences, by the illusions of our ancestors, by the lack of dreams that show desire. By lack of passion, thought, or desire to be a being you yourself created. Fear that shakes you to your core, makes a freezing wave crawl up all your nerves, raising goosebumps on your skin, panicking you, cold sweat slowly crawling down your neck. It's a nightmare, but your eyes are open, there's no escape in waking up. There's no escape outside of the virtual machine of human destruction. Deliver us to evil - deny us of our faith.
The world that offers you the illusion that nothing is as bad as you thought, as you were taught, as you were forced to believe. An illusion that talking with someone through an essentially crippled series of bits would give you the experience of spending 5 minutes with them. The illusion that typing will match the touch of your fingers. The illusion that distances don't matter, that everything could be the way it always used to. That what you do doesn't matter. Trickery.
Our past is our future - left behind, lost in time. Will we surrender? Abandon this - don't be a victim of the digital age. I don't want to live virtualized all the time, to find false substitutes to talking with people. Having a meal, having a drink, a chat, a brawl. Go o u t s i d e.
Saturday, 22. September 2007, 23:35:28
plane, air, thoughts, travel
...
Raised in the air again, covering the distances faster than you mind can travel them. High above, the contrast of the day and night, inflecting your thoughts, twisting the world around, inspiring imagination.
And then, there you are, at the middle point where the day turns suddenly into night, the sky split in two halves - contrasting the thoughts in your mind. The moon sitting exactly in between, half light, half dark as well - a border of a mirror world. How often do you get the chance to witness this? How often do you get the chance to see your mirror world?
The one side light and cold, the other dark and hot. Confusing contrasts - like the people on each side of your flight. Seemingly different, yet all the same. The differences only imposed in your mind, desperately seeking a change wherever it might find it.
Is there anything different on the other side? Is there a mirror world, when the sky is the sky, and people are people - everywhere you go? But the mirror world is in your head, in your eyes - the sign of it in the sky clearly burning the image in your head. How is it that a simple travel can deliver to your mind everything it seeks to find? The contrast, the calmness that you seek. There are little earthly concerns to bother you up in the air, if you don't go up looking for them.
What do you do when fate tells you you will not get where you want to go? Fate, screaming through your captain's voice in the speaker - telling you you cannot reach the place you're headed to? Do you sit back and accept what you can't control? Are you annoyed or content? How do you know what is it that fate had in mind for you tonight?
But you smile - because if you smile when you loose, you win in life. And you do - you take your mirror world and work your way trough, despite the facts. You seize your mirror world - denying everything around you - at that border in the sky, you sieze the other half and don't let go. Then you see - faith has given you your way and when you smile and follow it to the end - you win over the obstacles that seemed too final and unbeatable to everyone else. Why give up, why not smile and sieze what your mind was looking for?
Because you did - your step is sure now. Seeing that fate will tempt you to give it up and fail your ways. Like a test - it will never give you everything if you're not ready to sieze it yourself. The things that are meant to happen, just a mirror world in your mind - it's that border you need to pass. And laugh.
Why shoudn't you laugh when you see a challenge defeated? Why shoudn't you laugh when you see yourself escape a trap victorious? How else can you take all the pain and harshness of reality?
Open up you mind, look into your mirror world and smile. Tommorow does not exist. Today you're here. Today you win in life.
Saturday, 22. September 2007, 23:31:39
plane, air, thoughts, travel
...
What's a moment in the air worth?
Is it just yet another trip, another drink and another jetlag? What
are the reasons that drove you so far away from home?
A moment in the air. The roaring sounds of the jet engines tearing you
away from the earth you used to walk on just a few minutes ago.
Raising you above, showing you the place below you, looking like the
postcard you never sent home.
Flying away, home, recalling the moments of your last few days, that
filled you with joy. A little sadness, mixed with the orange-crimson
colors of the sun, falling below the horizon. What was it that drove
you to an unknown place? Was it the desire to run away for just a
little, curiosity, or simple love? You're a traveller, alone in your
thoughts. A trip back from the nowhere, flashing back the moments of
your past, mixing up a knowing smile in the pool of memories and
regret. What is it that you left behind you? The smile and the kiss
goodbye from a loved one. The warmth of the afternoon streets and the
warmth in your heart.
At those moments, those peaceful and empty moments of clarity - all
you see is the mixing colors of the sky and the whiteness of the
clouds, that used to be above you. You see the night sky chasing you
and slowly taking over. You see the sky slowly fade from black, then
into the purple of the dusk, slowly to the light blue of the day,
fading away from you, and then into the little stripe of crimson red
sky. Right there - where the sun used to be. Like a rainbow, stretched
across the whole sky. Peace engulfs you - and the dark thoughts fade
away. Colors like children's paintings and candy. That's the colors of
your most precious memories.
Who are you, my little traveller? What are you chasing, what are you
running away from? You can see your life in such a different way. Bad
is fading away and the good brings back yet another relaxed smile on
your face. You close your eyes and let life get back into your
exhausted body. You can see it now, all there, all yours - there is no
good and bad, no joy and sadness. Just the little smile again, brought
up by the memories of two loving eyes.
The little lit-up places below, connected with each other. Pretty
shapes of light, shapes of where other people live. Is there someone
looking up for you? Is there a couple, staring in each other's eyes,
like you did just a few hours ago yourself?
The light changes then, the sky slowly becomes candy blue, in the
colors of the rising dawn. The night slowly fades away, despite the
fact that you should've been engulfed in darkness. There is no
darkness where you're going. There is no darkness in what you just
found in yourself.
The plane goes down. Down through the thick carpet of clouds that has
covered your home. You get into that cover of pure white, like a baby
put to sleep in the soft, white cradle. The purity of the clouds
engulfs you. You look out and you see the little shards of ice, the
little drops of water - glittering in the blinking lights of the
airplane's wings. Like a blitz-light in the club you'll go to.
Flashing moments, white reflections of the tiny particles shining
in the fog. Like the glitter in the look of your loved one, like a
diamond necklace on the neck you used to kiss.
What does it matter where you started from? What does it matter where
you landed to? You've found the colors of your life in those few
hours. You've found the smiles and the warmth of those gentle
caresses. You've found yourself, again - the happiness within you and
the smiles that will wake you up in the morning.
You live. You love. You know.
Yourself.